• Small wineries to Vermont get high taxes
    I have a wine shop in Manchester. I do not want to sell mass market wines. What happened to slow food, buy individual family farms, help individuals as opposed to conglomerates.
    12 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Barbara Comollo
  • Raise the Bar on Minimum Wage
    Increasing Minimum wage to $10.10 an hour will provide more income for low-income families and individuals and will boost the paychecks of over 30 million workers in the United States.
    17 of 100 Signatures
    Created by LaToya Taylor
  • Stop picking on Government workers
    The employees of the federal government at Local 1938 out of the Army Corps of Engineers (Huntington District) have had cuts in all aspects and would like to have some back. We have been without uniforms for over a year because the program has been dropped. We would like to have it back so we can be distinguished from the public. The Volunteer program the Huntington office has provides hats and corp shirts so they can be distinguished but nothing for its employees. We as Local 1938 feel this is wrong and would like to have our uniform program back. We also would like for our government officials to stop cutting our benefits we now have and give us back our pay raise we have not had in years along with a cost of living. We work hard to meet the demands of the public and are finding it very hard with the cuts our government officials are coming up with. We feel if the Government need to cut the budget down it stop giving money overseas to benefit the rich who are sending jobs overseas and start taking better care of people at home.
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    Created by Arnold Coper President AFGE Local 1938
  • Hiring Educated African American Women
    This petition is being started because I have been trying to get a decent job at least 20 years or more. I have a MS from the State University of Buffalo at New York. My female friends all have degrees. I have several African American female friends who have tried to secure jobs/at companies and colleges of course the companies and the colleges gave excuses. Your to short , your to tall not smart enough. My daughter Tolley R. PhD graduated from TSU recently and she can't secure a job they say she is over qualified or you need more training. Now please come on another way of derailing us Black women That's crape. All us Black women know that it is just another way to keep us poor and out of the people's system. They want to say we weren't looking and that's a lie. I have spoken to many of the women and it's the same with all of us.Something has be done about this issue. . We want to be separate from civil rights and locked down with the minority stuff. Put us Black women aside from all of that and you'll see they never hire none of us. I'm disgusted with this type of system greedy and not allowing others to made a decent living. doing things. They would rather hire a handicap person to do the job than a Black educated female. This rotten system has got to change. One group of people can't have everything.
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    Created by shirley sarmiento
  • Bay Area Tell Walmart: Decent Pay, Not Handouts!
    Shocking! Earlier this week, news broke that in Ohio Walmart has been holding a food drive, asking its employees to donate to their hungry coworkers. I have a better idea for Walmart: Pay your workers enough to feed their families. But there is hope for change! Around the country Walmart workers are standing up and across the country they even went on strike for their right to speak out about issues like their low-wages without fear of Walmart retaliating against them. Workers and their supporters plan to hold protests at 1,500 Walmart stores around the country and in the Bay Area this Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving and the “Superbowl of Retail.” Sign my petition calling on Walmart to stop relying on other people’s generosity to support its low-road business model.
    1,270 of 2,000 Signatures
    Created by Jamie Way
  • D.C. tell Walmart: Decent Pay, Not Handouts!
    Shocking! Earlier this week, news broke that in Ohio Walmart has been holding a food drive, asking its employees to donate to their hungry coworkers. I have a better idea for Walmart: Pay your workers enough to feed their families. But there is hope for change! Around the country Walmart workers are standing up for their right to speak out about issues like their low-wages without fear of Walmart retaliating against them. Workers and their supporters plan to hold protests at 1,500 Walmart stores around the country and in the D.C. metro area area this Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving and the “Superbowl of Retail.” Sign my petition calling on Walmart to stop relying on other people’s generosity to support its low-road business model.
    510 of 600 Signatures
    Created by Jamie Way
  • Sacramento Tell Walmart: Decent Pay, Not Handouts!
    Shocking! Earlier this week, news broke that in Ohio Walmart has been holding a food drive, asking its employees to donate to their hungry coworkers. I have a better idea for Walmart: Pay your workers enough to feed their families. But there is hope for change! Around the country Walmart workers are standing up and in Sacramento last Friday they even went on strike for their right to speak out about issues like their low-wages without fear of Walmart retaliating against them. Workers and their supporters plan to hold protests at 1,500 Walmart stores around the country this Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving and the “Superbowl of Retail.” Sign my petition calling on Walmart to stop relying on other people’s generosity to support its low-road business model.
    215 of 300 Signatures
    Created by Jamie Way
  • New Yorkers Tell Walmart: Decent Pay, Not Handouts!
    Shocking! Earlier this week, news broke that in Ohio Walmart has been holding a food drive, asking its employees to donate to their hungry coworkers. I have a better idea for Walmart: Pay your workers enough to feed their families. But there is hope for change! Around the country Walmart workers are standing up. They even went on strike for their right to speak out about issues like their low-wages without fear of Walmart retaliating against them. Workers and their supporters plan to hold protests at 1,500 Walmart stores around the country and in New York City this Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving and the “Superbowl of Retail.” Sign my petition calling on Walmart to stop relying on other people’s generosity to support its low-road business model.
    1,406 of 2,000 Signatures
    Created by Jamie Way
  • Tell Walmart: Decent Pay, Not Handouts!
    Shocking! Earlier this week, news broke that in Ohio Walmart has been holding a food drive, asking its employees to donate to their hungry coworkers. I have a better idea for Walmart: Pay your workers enough to feed their families. But there is hope for change! Around the country Walmart workers are standing up. They even went on strike for their right to speak out about issues like their low-wages without fear of Walmart retaliating against them. Workers and their supporters plan to hold protests at 1,500 Walmart stores around the country and in New York City this Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving and the “Superbowl of Retail.” Sign my petition calling on Walmart to stop relying on other people’s generosity to support its low-road business model.
    4 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Charmaine Givens-Thomas
  • House GOP: Approve the Senate Version of the Farm Bill
    This petition was created to show Republicans in the House of Representatives how their constituents really feel about the automatic and proposed cuts to the food stamp program.
    1,328 of 2,000 Signatures
    Created by Zack Langway
  • Rep. McClintock: Avoid Another Shutdown—Close Corporate Tax Loopholes
    Recent federal budget cuts have hurt California's most vulnerable populations. Instead of taking money from schools and other vital services that help children, people with disabilities, seniors, and unemployed veterans, it's time to make profitable corporations pay their fair share.
    112 of 200 Signatures
    Created by Patrick Stelmach
  • Give Hawai'i A Minimum Wage We Can Live On!
    Tell the Hawaii Legislature and the Governor that we need a minimum wage of $15.00 per hour. As one of the most expensive states to live in, we need a minimum wage in Hawai’i that goes beyond being “minimal” to being a living wage that people here can afford rent, to eat healthy food, and get adequate health care. It’s time to stop subsidizing the gross profits of Big Businesses like Walmart and McDonald’s and other companies that exploit workers with low pay. We are tired of our taxes subsidizing the food and healthcare costs of such corporation’s “working poor” employees when these companies can afford to pay their workers a living wage. Give working people the dignity of paying their own way in society and make greedy companies dignify their workers with a minimum wage of $15.
    53 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Andres Autrique